AFLW 2025 - AFLW Trade and Draft - All the player moves
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Pretty sure we had a few offers but the cats really wanted it. We obviously have something planned for next year with 2 picks in each of the first three rounds to refresh the list or bring in a big name.
Kudos for doing this. I started trying to unpick it a few weeks ago and got fed up trying.As a late night undertaking (after a few drinks), have decided to see how we ended up, going back to the Motlop trade that started it all:
2017 Trade Period -
OUT: Motlop (Pick 19), 2018 Future 2nd (Pick 28)
IN: Ablett, Pick 24
2017 Draft Period -
Pick 24: Tim Kelly
2019 Trade Period -
OUT: Kelly, Pick 57, Future 3rd
IN: Pick 14, Pick 24 (became Pick 27), Pick 37, 2020 Future 1st (Pick 18)
2019 Draft Period -
Pick 16: Cooper Stephens, Pick 24 (became Pick 27) traded for 2020 GC Concession Pick 11 (became Pick 15), Pick 37 (ended up becoming Jenkins & Taheny at 50 after a whole bunch of pick swaps and trades)
2020 Trade Period -
OUT: GC Concession Pick 13 (11 prior to trade period, then became 15), Pick 15 (became 18), Pick 20 (became 24)
IN: Jeremy Cameron, Future 2nd Essendon (Pick 24-26), Future 2nd GWS (Pick 25-30)
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Provided Essendon finish bottom 8 - as most expect next year - then our Future Pick should be around 24 - just the same as the Pick 20 that ended up being Pick 24 for GWS - they cancel each other out.
If we also say that the Future 2nd we gave to GC as part of the Ablett deal (Pick 28) is equal to the Future 2nd we have from GWS in 2021 (Pick 25-30), then we can say that they cancel each other out too.
This means, that we essentially gave up Motlop and 2 picks in the 50's for Jeremy Cameron, Cooper Stephens, Cam Taheny, Josh Jenkins and 3 years of Gary Ablett.
I haven't bothered with all the machinations of the Pick 37 that basically ended up becoming Cam Taheny & Josh Jenkins - as it doesn't really add anything. Also didn't bother with the Future 4th we gave to GC, as I have no idea where that ended up and it's not that important.
Additionally, if we value Taheny where we drafted him at Pick 50, and Jenkins as a mid 50's pick, then that cancels out the two 50's picks we gave to WC as part of the Kelly trade.
Basically, when you break everything down over the 3 year duration, it means we essentially got Cameron, C. Stephens and 3 years of Ablett ...for Motlop.
That's insane, lol
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To look at this in another way, we could look at who we've drafted and who/what we've lost over the past 4 years:
Drafted/traded in since Motlop trade - listed in order of Best 22 viability (only players still on list included):
Jeremy Cameron
Shaun Higgins
Isaac Smith
Luke Dahlhaus
Gryan Miers
Gary Rohan
Jordan Clark
Brad Close
Tom Atkins
SDK
Cooper Stephens
Nathan Kreuger
Charlie Constable
Francis Evans
Cam Taheny
Josh Jenkins
Darcy Fort
Ben Jarvis
Stefan Okunbor
Max Holmes
Shannon Neale
Nick Stevens
Paul Tsapatolis
Oscar Brownless
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Traded out since Motlop trade
Tim Kelly
Steven Motlop
Lachie Fogarty
Nakia Cockatoo
Linc McCarthy
Jamaine Jones
Zac Smith (rookie listed)
Darcy Lang (delisted)
George Horlin-Smith (delisted)
Jordan Murdoch (rookie listed)
Jackson Thurlow (delisted, but could be re-rookied)
Daniel Menzel (delisted)
Ryan Abbott (delisted)
Delisted/retired players drafted or traded in since Motlop trade
Stewart Crameri
Jacob Kennerley
Jake Tarca
Blake Schlensog
Gary Ablett Jnr.
Jack Steven
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Reckon we've done pretty well, all things considering
Happy reading!
We needed to get a legit ruck prospect in Neale. I don’t expect Tsapatolis to even play afl at all. If he does that’s great but he’s just purely a swing for the fences. His lack of footy puts him so far behind Neale.
Don’t think it was a plan it was more that your targets were gone so moved on to next years draft instead
Yeah but you only need one #1 ruck on the field. We have Stanley, Fort, Blitz, Sav potentially, plus Tsapatolis. Abound 10% of the list trying to cover 5% of the on field positions.
it shit the bed
but unlike the "athletes" we've previousyl taken, this lot seems to have a higher footy pedigree and experience than the Greek and Blitz.
Agree, the falcons have an outstanding footy program. It is a case of the Cats being able to access this talent via the draft. The best go early, which is at the opposite end of the cats draft position.
I probably wouldn't put them in the category of Greek and Blitz where they are outsiders to the system. More the Jack Henry athlete where you do both. Where I think that helps is that there is every likely hood that if the season wasn't a write off both Holmes and Stevens would have risen up the draft order. Their basic flaw is lack of exposure in their bottom age year which then made them a larger risk because the season was a write off. However, both would have really benefited from a season.
